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Shalom Sabar

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, History of Art, Faculty Member

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Shalom Sabar, Ph.D. (1987), Art History, University of California Los Angeles, is a professor of Jewish Art and Folklore, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Research and publications concentrate on Jewish art and folk art, material culture, ceremonies, rituals and customs of Jewish communities in the life and year cycles; Jewish magic and ephemeral materials; Bible and Jerusalem in art; the relationships of Jewish art and folklore with the cultures of the host societies in Christian Europe and the Islamic East.

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Shalom Sabar, *The Art of the Ketubbah: Marriage Contracts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, vol. 2* (New York: Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 2022)

Shalom Sabar, *The Art of the Ketubbah: Marriage Contracts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, vol. 1* (New York: Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 2022)

*La Haggadah de Sarajevo: Histoire & art*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Sarajevo: Musée national de Bosnie-Herzégovine, 2021; French), trans. Delila Dizdarević-Barthlen

*Windows on Jewish Worlds: Essays in Honor of William Gross, Collector of Judaica*, eds. Shalom Sabar, Emile Schrijver, and Falk Wiesemann (Amsterdam: Walburg Pers B.V., Uitgeverij, 2019)

*The Sarajevo Haggadah – History & Art: Two volumes - a facsimile of the manuscript and accompanying text volume*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Sarajevo: National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018)

*Sarajevska Hagada – Povijest i Umjetnost*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Sarajevo: Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine, 2018; Bosnian)

*Ma‘agal Ha-hayyim (The Life Cycle), Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2006)

Shalom Sabar, *Jerusalem – Stone and Spirit: 3000 Years of History and Art* (Shanghai: SD Press, 2003; Chinese)

José-Luis Lacave, *Medieval Ketubot from Sefarad*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2002)

Shalom Sabar, *Masel tow: illuminierte jüdische Eheverträge aus der Sammlung des Israel Museum* (Berlin: Jüdische Verlagsanstalt, 2000)

Shalom Sabar, *Ketubbah: The Art of the Jewish Marriage Contract* (New York: Rizzoli International, 2000)

*A Crown for a King: Studies in Jewish Art, History and Archaeology in Memory of Stephen S. Kayser*, eds. Shalom Sabar, Steven Fine, and William M. Kramer (Berkeley and Jerusalem, Judah L. Magnes Museum and Gefen Publishing House, 2000)

Dan Bahat and Shalom Sabar, *Jerusalem – Stone and Spirit: 3000 Years of History and Art* (Tel Aviv: Matan Art Publishers, 1997)

*“And I Crowned You With Wreaths…”: The International Judaica Exhibition*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Binyane Ha-Umma, 1996)

*Between Judaism and Islam in the Mirror of Art: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Society for Jewish Art*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Society for Jewish Art, 1996; Hebrew)

*Brushstrokes of History: Jewish Life in Russia in the Works of Sarah Schorr and Meir Axelrod*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1995)

Shalom Sabar, *Mazal Tov: Illuminated Jewish Marriage Contracts from the Israel Museum Collection* (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1994)

Shalom Sabar, *Mazal Tov: Illuminated Jewish Marriage Contracts from the Israel Museum Collection* (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1993; Hebrew)

*Revival: Rubbings of Jewish Tombstones from the Ukraine*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Hechal Shlomo, 1992)

*Nina Eizenberg: Transformations – Russian Avant-Garde Costume and Stage Design*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Zionist Conference House, 1991)

Shalom Sabar, *The Art of the Ketubbah: Marriage Contracts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, vol. 2* (New York: Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 2022)

Shalom Sabar, *The Art of the Ketubbah: Marriage Contracts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, vol. 1* (New York: Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 2022)

*La Haggadah de Sarajevo: Histoire & art*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Sarajevo: Musée national de Bosnie-Herzégovine, 2021; French), trans. Delila Dizdarević-Barthlen

*Windows on Jewish Worlds: Essays in Honor of William Gross, Collector of Judaica*, eds. Shalom Sabar, Emile Schrijver, and Falk Wiesemann (Amsterdam: Walburg Pers B.V., Uitgeverij, 2019)

*The Sarajevo Haggadah – History & Art: Two volumes - a facsimile of the manuscript and accompanying text volume*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Sarajevo: National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018)

*Sarajevska Hagada – Povijest i Umjetnost*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Sarajevo: Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine, 2018; Bosnian)

*Ma‘agal Ha-hayyim (The Life Cycle), Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2006)

Shalom Sabar, *Jerusalem – Stone and Spirit: 3000 Years of History and Art* (Shanghai: SD Press, 2003; Chinese)

José-Luis Lacave, *Medieval Ketubot from Sefarad*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2002)

Shalom Sabar, *Masel tow: illuminierte jüdische Eheverträge aus der Sammlung des Israel Museum* (Berlin: Jüdische Verlagsanstalt, 2000)

Shalom Sabar, *Ketubbah: The Art of the Jewish Marriage Contract* (New York: Rizzoli International, 2000)

*A Crown for a King: Studies in Jewish Art, History and Archaeology in Memory of Stephen S. Kayser*, eds. Shalom Sabar, Steven Fine, and William M. Kramer (Berkeley and Jerusalem, Judah L. Magnes Museum and Gefen Publishing House, 2000)

Dan Bahat and Shalom Sabar, *Jerusalem – Stone and Spirit: 3000 Years of History and Art* (Tel Aviv: Matan Art Publishers, 1997)

*“And I Crowned You With Wreaths…”: The International Judaica Exhibition*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Binyane Ha-Umma, 1996)

*Between Judaism and Islam in the Mirror of Art: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Society for Jewish Art*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Society for Jewish Art, 1996; Hebrew)

*Brushstrokes of History: Jewish Life in Russia in the Works of Sarah Schorr and Meir Axelrod*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1995)

Shalom Sabar, *Mazal Tov: Illuminated Jewish Marriage Contracts from the Israel Museum Collection* (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1994)

Shalom Sabar, *Mazal Tov: Illuminated Jewish Marriage Contracts from the Israel Museum Collection* (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1993; Hebrew)

*Revival: Rubbings of Jewish Tombstones from the Ukraine*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Hechal Shlomo, 1992)

*Nina Eizenberg: Transformations – Russian Avant-Garde Costume and Stage Design*, ed. Shalom Sabar (Jerusalem: Zionist Conference House, 1991)

Shalom Sabar, “Ben Porat Yosef: The Figure of Joseph in the Folklore and Art of Sephardic Jewry and the Jews of Muslim Lands,” in Beloved David – Advisor, Man of Understanding, and Writer: A Festschrift in Honor of David Stern (Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2024), 717-752

Shalom Sabar, “Ben Porat Yosef: The Figure of Joseph in the Folklore and Art of Sephardic Jewry a... more Shalom Sabar, “Ben Porat Yosef: The Figure of Joseph in the Folklore and Art of Sephardic Jewry and the Jews of Muslim Lands,” in Naftali S. Cohn and Katrin Kogman-Appel, eds., Beloved David – Advisor, Man of Understanding, and Writer: A Festschrift in Honor of David Stern (Providence, Rhode Island: Brown Judaic Studies, 2024), 717-752

Shalom Sabar, “La storia di Purim nell’arte ebraica. Il rotolo di Ester illustrato in Italia,” in Olga Melasecchi, Amedeo Spagnoletto, Marina Caffiero, eds., Bellissima Ester: Capolavori per una Regina – Exhibition catalog (Rome: Museo Ebraico di Roma and SilvanaEditoriale, 2024), 38-57

Shalom Sabar, “The Purim Story in Jewish Art – The Illustrated Esther Scroll in Italy,” in Olga Melasecchi, Amedeo Spagnoletto, Marina Caffiero, eds. Beautiful Esther – Masterpieces for a Queen – Exhibition catalog (Rome: Museo Ebraico di Roma, SilvanaEditoriale, 2024), 38-57

Shalom Sabar, “Important Tuscan Ketubot in the Archivio di Stato in Florence,” in Piergabriele Mancuso, Alice S. Legé, Sefy Hendler, eds., The Jews, the Medici, and the Ghetto: History, Identity, Culture and Segregation – Exhibition catalog (Florence: Firenze Musei / Sillabe, 2023), 248-257

Shalom Sabar, “‘Le importanti ketubot toscane dell’Archivio di Stato di Firenze,” in Piergabriele Mancuso, et al, eds., Gli ebrei, i Medici e il ghetto di Firenze: Storie e identità tra cultura e segregazione – Exhibition catalog (Florence: Firenze Musei / Sillabe, 2023), 248-257

Shalom Sabar, “Preface – A Song of Praise,” in Thomas Gelb, The Spice of Life: Besamim Containers, Spice Boxes, from the Collection of Thomas Gelb (Quebec, South Carolina: Drew Design & Printing Co., 2023), 4

Shalom Sabar, “Material Culture,” in Israel Bartal and Kenneth B. Moss, eds., The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 6: National Renaissance and International Horizons, 1880-1918 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023), 618-636

Harvey E. Goldberg and Shalom Sabar, “Life Cycle Rituals,” Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) [Jewish Studies Section editor: David Biale).

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Shalom Sabar, “Moshe Shah Mizrachi,” in Yaron Ben-Naeh and Michal Held Delaroza, eds., Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: The Old Sephardi Yishuv in Ertz Israel (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2023), 309 (Hebrew)

Shalom Sabar, “Art and Folk Art [of the Old Sephardi Yishuv in Eretz Israel],” in Yaron Ben-Naeh and Michal Held Delaroza, eds., Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: The Old Sephardi Yishuv in Ertz Israel (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2023). 301-322 (Hebrew)

Shalom Sabar, “‘The Year of the Liberation of Our Holy Sites’: The Six-Day War in the Mirror of Israeli Folk Art,” Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore, vol. 35 (2023): 37-86 (Hebrew)

Shalom Sabar, “Introduction,” in Anne Cameron, Dzelarhons: Mythology of the Northwest Coast (Tel Aviv: Gama Publishing House, 2022), 9-12 (Hebrew)

Shalom Sabar, “Ecclesiastes in Cutout Designs – A Masterpiece of Naftaly Mazaky,” in A Yemenite Silversmith in Paper: Naftaly Mazaky – Papercuts Inspired by the Book of Ecclesiastes (Jerusalem: Hechal Shlomo – The Wolfson Museum of Jewish Art, 2022), 10-11 (Hebrew)

Shalom Sabar, “Hadar and Hiddur: The Etrog in Jewish Art,” in Warren Klein, Sharon Liberman Mintz, and Joshua Teplitsky, eds., Be Fruitful! The Etrog in Jewish Art, Culture, and History (Jerusalem: Mineged Press, 2022), 166-193

Shalom Sabar, “See and Sanctify: Ceremonies and Ceremonial Art in Medieval Ashkenaz and Italy,” in Oliver Leaman, ed., Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice (London: Routledge, 2022), 71-92

Shalom Sabar, “‛A Glorious Throne’ – Folk Art and Tradition in Elijah Chairs from Italy,” Yeda Am – Journal of the Israeli Folklore Society, vol. 48, no. 85-86 (2022): 12-39 (Hebrew)

Shalom Sabar and Barry Dov Walfish, “Tomb of Nahum,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 20 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022), cols. 601-603

Shalom Sabar and Barry Dov Walfish, “Nahum (Book and Person) in Modern Judaism,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 20 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022), cols. 593-594

Shalom Sabar, “Rachel Wischnitzer: Life and Work,” in Rachel Wischnitzer-Bernstein, Symbols and Forms in Jewish Art (Cracow: IRSA, 2022), 171-206

Shalom Sabar, “‘The Eternal Sabbath’ Electric Sabbath Candles: The History of a Folk Tradition from a Modernist Perspective,” in Lea Mauas, Michelle MacQueen, and Diego Rotman, eds., Possession and Dispossession: Performing Jewish Ethnography in Jerusalem (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022), 162-194

Announcement for Conference on Jewish Art in Honor of the Retirement of Professor Shalom Sabar, organized by the Department of Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (23 December 2019)

Announcing a New Edition of the Sarajevo Haggadah: Complete Facsimile and Text Volume (by Shalom Sabar) - issued by the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, October 2018

The Sarajevo Haggadah - History & Art

A new complete facsimile accompanied by a text volume (304 pp.). Available from the Museum's shop... more